On loan
MK Gallery (Milton Keynes, UK): The Lie of the Land
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 671 x 998 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D17045
Turner Bequest CXCV 75
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Hans Vredeman de Vries was a Dutch painter and architectural designer who published books with inventive illustrations of buildings in perspective. His treatise entitled Perspective 1604-5 had an important impact on northern European artists interested in perspectival painting.
Here Turner demonstrates how Vredeman de Vries used lines on a grid leading to a principal point (E for Eye) and a diagonal to a distance point (D) to produce a foreshortened cube.
Gallery label, September 2004
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